Peter Crisp wrote:Just had an odd thought. Is it possible for the Doctor to instantly hate a new version of himself and force an another regeneration?

Maybe he regenerates into someone who looks exactly like Hitler or something?

I don't know enough of the lore to know if it can be done of free will, but either way I assume Timelords would consider that something like self harm. If regeneration needs that 'near fatal' trigger it could presumably be triggered by inducing that intentionally but that would definitely cross a line.

Thought that was one of the best episodes of the season, along with last week. Felt like a good mystery and not overloaded nothing. Unsurprising that the best two episodes of the season weren’t written by Chibnall

episode had the potential to be good but then blew it with the whole "the systems not the problem is the people who misuse it" gooseberry fool. up until that point it was a pretty damning critique of the amazon warehousing system; like all good sci fi it was based in reality. and then they just... threw it away.

also the bit at the end where they say not to pop the bubble wrap but at the start of the episode Ryan popped some and didn't die? wtf was that?

Wrathy wrote:episode had the potential to be good but then blew it with the whole "the systems not the problem is the people who misuse it" gooseberry fool. up until that point it was a pretty damning critique of the amazon warehousing system; like all good sci fi it was based in reality. and then they just... threw it away.

Thinking about it, this was pretty right-wing for Doctor Who. The corporate bloke in the suit with a gun turned out to be a good guy, the villain was the young reactionary (or terrorist), and at the end the market self-corrects to provide more jobs.

Vinay Patel's only real piece of work I can find is about honour killings. Has he done much else?